The Study of Religion
Distinct from
Theology, "Religious Studies" takes a detached
view in understanding the phenomenon of
Religion. Using lectures from the "Great
Courses" series on the "Introduction to
Religion" the course will examine some of the
ways in which Religion has been understood since
the Enlightenment by such thinkers as; David
Hume, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Karl
Jung, among others.
Date & Time:
Mondays and Thursdays, January 7, 11, 14, 18,
21, 25, 28, from 3 - 4:30 pm
Location: Hamilton Public Library
Facilitator:
Dr. John Morris,
former dean
of the faculty and former
interim
president of Colgate University
The Man
behind the Mural: Lee Brown Coye's Masterpiece
Tour the
works of Lee Brown Coye's murals with Denise
Leone for an in-depth perspective on the art
works. Hamilton is home to
several of Coye works and this program will be a
guided walking tour to view them.
Date & Time: Wednesday, January 13 from 4 – 5 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Denise Stillwaggon Leone
Social
Networking
The rapid
growth of computer technology and the internet
have led to the creation of numerous social
networking tools, such as MySpace, Twitter,
Facebook, and AOL Instant Messenger. This course
will explain what these networking tools are and
will clarify the differences between them.
Participants will learn how to set up and
maintain their own individualized accounts with
various social networking sites. The course will
also cover issues of online privacy and security
surrounding social networking sites.
Participants will finish the course knowing how
to safely use these social networking tools as a
means of staying in touch with friends, family,
and colleagues; or to promote or advertise a
certain cause or product.
Date & Time:
Tuesdays,
February 2, 9, and 16 from 4:15 - 5:45 p
Location:
Case-Geyer 345
Picker Classroom
Facilitator:
Megan Heise, Colgate University Class of‘10
'Look-up!'
Biodiversity in the Rainforest Canopy
Dr.
Catherine Cardelús,
Colgate University, Department of Biology
Dr. Cardelús
will discuss her research on the diversity of
canopy plants (vascular epiphytes) along a 3000m
elevation gradient in Costa Rica. Her lecture
will explore the potential impacts of global
warming and land-use change on the diversity on
epiphytes in particular and lowland rainforest
diversity in general. For more detail on this
published research visit
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;322/5899/258
Date & Time:
Wednesday, February 3 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Location:
Colgate
Bookstore, 3rd Floor Community Room
Facilitator:
Dr. Catherine
Cardelús, Professor of Biology, Colgate
University
Legal and
Financials Aspects Involved in Preparing for
Long-term Care
This will be
one session given by Mr. St. Leger’s law firm,
touching on the various considerations involved
with preparing for illness, legal aspects
thereof, and financial concerns. Wills, power of
attorney, health directives, and ways to protect
assets will be discussed.
Date & Time:
Wednesday,
February 10 from 5 – 6:30 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Michael St. Leger, Esq., from Dunn, Bruno, St.
Leger, Attorneys, Oneida and Hamilton
Two
Shakespearean Playhouses
Dr. Susan
Cerasano, Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of
Literature, Colgate University, English
Department
This course
will explore two playhouses with Shakespearean
associations—the Rose (1587-1600) and the Globe
(1600-1616)—by looking at evidence gathered from
archaeology, performance history, theatre
history, biography, and two plays that were
probably written for the opening of the new
Globe in 1600—Henry V and Julius
Caesar. Topics will include actors and
acting companies, current archaeological
findings related to the Rose, commercial
contexts for the new “capitalist playhouses,”
theatre owners and the theatrical account diary
kept by the owner of the Rose, and the
playwright’s profession. There will be some
lecture, but conversation will be very
welcomed.
Two books
will be required for the course. These books are
available at the Colgate Bookstore:
William
Shakespeare, Henry V (ed. A. R.
Braunmuller, the Pelican Shakespeare):
Penguin Classics
(1999), ISBN-10: 0140714588, ISBN-13:
978-0140714586
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (ed.
Paul Werstine and Barbara Mowat, the Folger
Shakespeare): Simon & Schuster (2005), ISBN-10:
0743484932, ISBN-13: 978-0743484930
Date & Time:
Wednesdays, February 17, 24 and March 3, 10, 24
and 31st from 3 - 4:30 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Dr. Susan
Cerasano, Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of
Literature, Colgate University
Local
Issues Local Answers: Understanding and Dealing
with Current Issues in Madison County
This three
part series offers information and statistics on
community need in the areas of the economy, the
environment, and education in Madison County.
Environment, February 25:
Patients have long been advised to flush unused
pharmaceuticals down the toilet; now trace
amounts of drugs have began showing up in the
nation’s water supply. Van Bartlett, Lead
Trainer, Environmental Training Center,
Morrisville State College will explain how
flushing drugs effect water quality. Mary
Bartlett, Director, RSVP of Madison County
discusses Madison County’s ‘Safe Pill Drop-Off’
program.
Economy,
March 4:
Karen Baase, Association Issue Leader of
Cornell Cooperative Extension and Becca
Jablonski, Program Director of the Madison
County Agriculture Economic Development Program
will discuss background information about
agriculture and the economy in Madison County.
Education,
March 11:
Madison County has identified education needs in
the area of adult literacy and social
competencies for disadvantaged youth.
Representatives from Madison County Reads Ahead,
an adult literacy program, will present results
of the Literacy Needs Assessment for Madison
County and discuss the expansion of the literacy
program into seven county libraries. Community
Action Partnership’s Youth Mentoring Program
Director JoAnne Morak will discuss the community
need for mentoring in Madison County.
Date & Time:
Thursdays,
February 25, March 4 and 11 from 4 -5:30 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Mary Bartlett, Director RSVP of Madison County
Inside
Autism
Autism is
becoming more prevalent and schools and
communities are working hard to provide the best
adaptations for those children who have that
diagnosis. But what is it? Come and find out
what is going on inside the mind of a person
with autism: the differences in brain
development that causes the profile that we see.
We will also explore the simple but effective
modifications that allow people with autism to
learn. Janet O’Flynn is a pediatric occupational
therapist presently working for Madison-Oneida
BOCES in Oneida and Vernon. She has worked with
the autism support team in Vineyard Haven MA and
has studied autism as part of her Masters in
Early Childhood Special Education in Syracuse.
Date & Time:
Saturdays,
February 27, March 6 and 13 from 10 - 11:30 am
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Janet O’Flynn
Meditation
as Medicine – Advanced Series
This will be
an advanced, continuation of last semester’s
session*. The daily practice of meditation has
been demonstrated to promote healing on many
levels. Enhanced awareness of our bodies, our
minds, our breath and our symptoms enables us to
find ways to self-heal. Mark J. Sicherman, MD
is a physician and psychotherapist and has been
studying and teaching meditation for over 30
years. NOTE: Please do not eat directly before
the class.
*Please email
LLP@colgate.edu if you did not attend the
fall session but are interested in learning
meditation.
Date & Time:
Mondays,
March 1, 8, 15, 22, from 5 – 6 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Mark J. Sicherman, MD
Picker Art Gallery Exhibition: Broadcast
Curator Joachim Homann PhD, will join us and
present Broadcast.
Organized by Independent Curators International
and the Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art,
Broadcast
explores the ways in which artists since the
late 1960s have engaged with, critiqued, and
inserted themselves into official channels of
broadcast television and radio. By co-opting the
sounds, images, and presentation strategies of
our culture’s dominant forms of mass media, they
reveal the mechanisms and power structures of
broadcasting systems, and challenge their
authority and influence.
For more information
visit
http://picker.colgate.edu
Date & Time:
Tuesday, March 9, from 4 – 5:30 pm
Location: Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University
Facilitator:
Dr. Joachim Homann, curator, Picker Art Gallery,
Colgate University
The Atomic
Bombinig of Hiroshima: Some Retrospective
Judgments
Dr. Andrew
Rotter, Colgate University, Department of
History
The atomic
bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, was one
of the pivotal events in human history. Debate
still rages over key issues. Why was the bomb
used? Was the bombing--and the bombing of
Nagasaki, three days later--necessary to end the
war against Japan? Did the atomic bomb cross a
moral threshhold because of its special
destructiveness? This lecture will consider
these and other questions, and invite the
audience to help answer them.
Date & Time:
Thursday, March 25 from 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Location:
Colgate
Bookstore, 3rd Floor Community Room
Facilitator:
Dr. Andrew
Rotter, Professor of History, Colgate University
Sustainability Part 2: Globally, In Practice, In
Our Everyday Lives
John Pumilio,
Colgate University’s Sustainability Coordinator,
will present his second lecture on the global
scenario of sustainability. He will focus on
sustainability in practice using Colgate as an
example, as well as sustainability in our daily
lives and how to lead a more environmentally
friendly lifestyle. He will include a brief
refresher from his fall session; therefore you
need not have attended Part 1.
Date & Time: Thursday,
April 1, from
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Location:
Colgate
Bookstore, 3rd Floor
Facilitator:
John Pumilio, Sustainability Coordinator,
Colgate University
Lyme and
Tick Borne Disease, an Emerging National
Epidemic
Lyme disease
is an emerging national epidemic, with reported
cases rising by 78% in 2008. New York State has
been near the top of this list for reported
cases and we are now experiencing a rapid rise
in Central NYS of this difficult illness. Harvey
will discuss the etiology of Lyme disease, the
spirochetes that cause it, diagnosis and
treatment as well as ways to limit one’s risk of
getting it. Debbie will discuss the
manifestation and effects of Lyme on children.
Harvey L. Kliman, Ph.D. and Debbie Kliman, Ed.D
founded the non-profit Lyme Disease Association
of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Inc. Debbie Kliman,
Ed.D also has published several articles on
children and Lyme as well as treating children
in her practice as a clinical psychologist. For
more information visit lymepa.org
Date &
Time: Wednesdays, April 7 and 14 from 4 - 6 pm
Location:
Hamilton Public Library
Facilitators:
Harvey L.
Kliman, Ph.D. and Debbie Kliman, Ed.D.
Reading
the Bible in America
Dr. Lesleigh
Cushing, Colgate University, Department of
Religion
This course
focuses on the ways that the Hebrew Bible (Old
Testament) gets
read and used in American culture and politics.
We will look at what the Bible says (or doesn't
say) about a range of issues, from the role of
women to the death penalty to stem cell
research.
Date & Time:
Thursdays April 8, 15, 22, 29 from 1 – 3 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Dr. Lesleigh
Cushing, Professor of Religion, Colgate
University
Golf, the
Game of Life
This class
will be an approach to improving your golf game
or other game skills as well as looking at ways
to revisit how your life is unfolding. The book,
Golf: The Game of Life, by Arthur Rashap
(Colgate class of ’58) is recommended. For
discount copies of the book prior to the class
contact Arthur Rashap at
arthur.rashap@gmail.com
Date & Time: Saturdays in April 10, 17, 24 from
10 – 11:30 am
Location:
Wooster Room,
1st Floor Huntington Gym, Colgate
University Campus
Facilitator:
Arthur Rashap, J.D.
Picker Art Gallery Exhibition: Underhill/Weston
Photography Show
Curator Joachim Homann PhD, will present two
shows: Landscape Close-up: Photographs from
Brett Weston Archive and Faculty Focus: Linn
Underhill. For more information visit
http://picker.colgate.edu
Landscape Close-up: Photographs from Brett
Weston Archive:
Brett Weston (1911-1993), son and apprentice of
Edward Weston, developed his own photographic
vision by combining close-ups with strong black
and white contrasts, reducing his subjects to
pure form. Although he traveled to and
photographed in locations around the world,
Weston, in later years, was most attached to the
landscapes of Hawaii.
Faculty Focus: Linn Underhill:
Linn Underhill (b. 1936), photographer and
associate professor of art and art history at
Colgate University, has won critical acclaim for
her series of portraits and self-portraits that
investigate femininity, social roles, and the
process of aging.
Date & Time:
Tuesday, May 4, from 4 – 5:30 pm
Location: Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University
Facilitator:
Dr. Joachim Homann, curator, Picker Art Gallery,
Colgate University
Ruling the
World 2010: Congressional Republicans vs. Obama
Democrats
American
leadership rules the world primarily because of
its economic competitiveness and political
influence. With the decline of our economy and
rise of partisan politics, our world leadership
is threatened. Control of Congress has a great
deal to do with both. What should advocates of
American leadership do about the upcoming 2010
elections?
Dick
Cheshire PhD is a retired college president,
professor, and development officer who is a
regular teaching leadership classes for Colgate
LLP.
Date & Time: Wednesdays, May 12, 19, 26 from 4 -
5:30 pm
Location:
Hamilton
Public Library
Facilitator:
Dick Cheshire, Ph.D.
Partner Events
The following events are hosted by other organizations but
may be of interest to our members. Please
note that these may have a separate registration
and/or attendance fee! Please contact the
host organization for more information or to
register.
Ongoing Partner Events:
Emerging Cinema at Hamilton Theater:
Remember that Lifelong Learning Program members
receive discounted admission to these films,
offered Sunday through Thursday at 5:30 pm. The
discounted rate for LLP members is $5.50 a
ticket.
Click here for the Hamilton Theater
website
Hamilton Book & Movie Club:
The Colgate Bookstore and the Hamilton Movie Theater partner
to offer this Book & Movie club, which provides
three evenings of entertainment, including a
private film screening of a film adapted from
that month's book selection, followed by a light
dinner and lively discussion at the Bookstore. To join the club, or for
more information, a list of featured selections,
and screening dates, visit
www.colgatebookstore.com/bookmovie
You may also
contact Heather Elia at 228-6944 or
helia@colgate.edu.
Education Unlimited:
For more
information visit
www.educationunlimitedofa.org/
Frequently
Asked Questions
What are the benefits?
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The
Lifelong Learning program gives members
access to an unlimited number of programs,
seminars and special events.
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Lifelong
Learning programs have been called a "health
club for the brain." Membership in an LLP
develops insight, stimulates curiosity and
satisfies the intellect.
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The
LLP provides an opportunity for social
interaction and intellectual gain in a group
atmosphere.
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The
LLP allows members to develop new ideas and
gain a better understanding of the
community, the world and oneself!
PLUS:
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All
LLP members receive a 20% discount at the
Colgate Bookstore any day of the week on
most items.
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All
LLP members have borrowing privileges at the
Case-Geyer Library at Colgate.
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All
LLP members receive discounted admission to
the Emerging Cinemas offerings at the
Hamilton Theater.
Who can join?
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The Lifelong Learning program is open to any
adult who is interested in continuing to
learn and spend time with like minded
individuals.
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The
desire to learn is the sole criterion for
membership. There are no educational
requirements.
What’s required?
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An
individual annual membership of $30
allows one to attend all events offered
through the program. Family memberships are
obtainable for $55. Scholarships are
available!
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To
attend courses, members must enroll.
Who’s in charge?
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The
Lifelong Learning program is sponsored by
the Upstate Institute at Colgate University
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A
steering team of community members and
Upstate Institute staff have developed and
guided the Lifelong Learning program. Future
planning will involve the membership
functioning through a committee structure.
What opportunities are offered?
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The
program includes peer-taught and faculty-led
courses as well as special events, lectures
and discussion groups.
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A
list of the courses being offered each
semester is published in the Lifelong
Learning Program newsletter and on the
Upstate Institute website.
Need more information?
For more information, contact Rebecca Brenner,
Upstate Institute at
LLP@colgate.edu or 315-228-6623
Lifelong
Learning
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